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Laurie B Creates: custom embroidered dog and human goods

My mom has been a professional seamstress, quilter, and sewing teacher since before I was born, and she recently launched her own custom embroidery business. She's been doing stuff for a local dog boutique, and I told her I'd make a post advertising here as well. She can do pretty much anything, and has been doing a lot of bandannas and customized collars. She also did a set of napkins for Claudia a while back, and can now make them far more quickly because she got a professional grade embroidery machine. She's got stock products as well as the customized stuff too. The bandannas are $15 each, I'm not sure about pricing for other things. Her email is laurie.b@comcast.net if you want more info. Here are some examples of what she has:

She can do any team color set and any saying on them. This was for the Army/Navy game:

And here is Shadow modeling. Caption is "draw me like one of your French girls, Jack!"

"Being the parent of a special-needs pet means living your life constantly poised on the edge of a double-edged sword. On the one hand, you become a fierce defender of the ways in which your little one is perfectly ordinary — all the things he or she can do that are just like what everybody else does. And yet, you never lose sight of how absolutely extraordinary that very ordinariness is, how difficult, remarkable and rewarding that fight to be 'just like everybody else' has been." -Gwen Cooper, "Homer's Odyssey"

"Being the parent of a special-needs pet means living your life constantly poised on the edge of a double-edged sword. On the one hand, you become a fierce defender of the ways in which your little one is perfectly ordinary — all the things he or she can do that are just like what everybody else does. And yet, you never lose sight of how absolutely extraordinary that very ordinariness is, how difficult, remarkable and rewarding that fight to be 'just like everybody else' has been." -Gwen Cooper, "Homer's Odyssey"

The problem is that shipping from the US to here is gonna be crazy expensive :Dat least it has been when I have looked into it before. But it could be good to know if I feel that I have some extra money left over in the future. As long as it isnt too bothersome for her to check

Edit: That's great to know! I might not need anything new for a while though. I don't feel like buying something made with love that my puppy would only end up destroying I'll keep this in mind!

"Being the parent of a special-needs pet means living your life constantly poised on the edge of a double-edged sword. On the one hand, you become a fierce defender of the ways in which your little one is perfectly ordinary — all the things he or she can do that are just like what everybody else does. And yet, you never lose sight of how absolutely extraordinary that very ordinariness is, how difficult, remarkable and rewarding that fight to be 'just like everybody else' has been." -Gwen Cooper, "Homer's Odyssey"

Worst part of puppyhood - can't buy pretty things I've been trying to find someone who makes nice, costumized collars in Sweden and Finland for a good while now but without any results. I am seriously picky lol

"Being the parent of a special-needs pet means living your life constantly poised on the edge of a double-edged sword. On the one hand, you become a fierce defender of the ways in which your little one is perfectly ordinary — all the things he or she can do that are just like what everybody else does. And yet, you never lose sight of how absolutely extraordinary that very ordinariness is, how difficult, remarkable and rewarding that fight to be 'just like everybody else' has been." -Gwen Cooper, "Homer's Odyssey"

They turned out better than the picture shows. Of course, I don't want to use my napkins unless it's a 'clean' dinner so they don't get stained! And the dishtowels are only used to to wipe dry clean pots and pans! LOL! I'll eventually use them, but for now, they are still 'pretty'!

Just thought I'd bump this up because I got some scarves for Yukon. They came really fast with a nice note too. However the best part was that I only ordered one scarf, but Meredith's mom was so awesome that she gave me another one for free! They're really nice too, here's some pictures:

"Being the parent of a special-needs pet means living your life constantly poised on the edge of a double-edged sword. On the one hand, you become a fierce defender of the ways in which your little one is perfectly ordinary — all the things he or she can do that are just like what everybody else does. And yet, you never lose sight of how absolutely extraordinary that very ordinariness is, how difficult, remarkable and rewarding that fight to be 'just like everybody else' has been." -Gwen Cooper, "Homer's Odyssey"

The Facebook page will be going live in the next few days, I'm building it for her. The page actually exists, as of right now it just doesn't have examples up there. That's one of my weekend projects

Courtney, she doesn't have any pictures of collars yet but she can do them. I'd also imagine she's stocking up on 4th of July themed fabric as well. Also, she can do Air Force themed stuff if you ask her, she's done some Navy stuff for us

The Facebook page is called Laurie B Creates, and while there's not much up yet you're welcome to go like the page and wait for stuff to get posted.

"Being the parent of a special-needs pet means living your life constantly poised on the edge of a double-edged sword. On the one hand, you become a fierce defender of the ways in which your little one is perfectly ordinary — all the things he or she can do that are just like what everybody else does. And yet, you never lose sight of how absolutely extraordinary that very ordinariness is, how difficult, remarkable and rewarding that fight to be 'just like everybody else' has been." -Gwen Cooper, "Homer's Odyssey"

"Being the parent of a special-needs pet means living your life constantly poised on the edge of a double-edged sword. On the one hand, you become a fierce defender of the ways in which your little one is perfectly ordinary — all the things he or she can do that are just like what everybody else does. And yet, you never lose sight of how absolutely extraordinary that very ordinariness is, how difficult, remarkable and rewarding that fight to be 'just like everybody else' has been." -Gwen Cooper, "Homer's Odyssey"

"Being the parent of a special-needs pet means living your life constantly poised on the edge of a double-edged sword. On the one hand, you become a fierce defender of the ways in which your little one is perfectly ordinary — all the things he or she can do that are just like what everybody else does. And yet, you never lose sight of how absolutely extraordinary that very ordinariness is, how difficult, remarkable and rewarding that fight to be 'just like everybody else' has been." -Gwen Cooper, "Homer's Odyssey"